While admitting that there are “no firm plans yet on way forward for BPL”, Minister of

Energy and Transportation, Jobeth Coleby-Davis also stated that “Opposition has no legitimacy to complain about BPL”, this is what you get when ignorance befriends arrogance.

As we all remember this begun with the Minister of Energy and Trasport having to ‘walk back” the statement with government attempting to take full control of Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) for three years without any input from the regulatory body Utilities Regulations and Competition Authority (URCA) and then having to bring ‘clarification” to the situation by way of a last minute amendment to the Electricity Bill  – “good” Minister, if the bill was in the best interest of the country and the people then that particular amendment would have never been necessary, unless of coursed the New day Government is that inept and that incompetent.

“Minister notes no firm plans yet on way forward for BPL” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article;

 “Minister of Energy and Transport JoBeth Coleby-Davis said yesterday all options are on the table to help rightsize Bahamas Power and Light (BPL), which she reiterated is in a state of financial crisis.

“All of the exercises that we’re doing now are a part of rightsizing BPL,” said Coleby-Davis at an Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) press briefing.

“Any partnership or any relationship that we engage in would also take into consideration the option to be able to facilitate payments to the legacy debt on a timely basis, and that is why we have to do these exercises so we can give BPL more room in their finances to be able to fund and pay down their debt.

“The government is not in the business of putting the Bahamian people and any assets related to them in a worse position, and so, as we are leading these discussions to find possible solutions, everything is on the table.”

If we all can remember, the “good” Minister promised lower electricity bills by the middle of this year, even though at that time oil prices globally were trending upward, so we put all of our faith in the “good” Minister only today to have her tell us that  her government  has “…no firm plans yet on way forward for BPL”.

What a time in the kingdom but it gets better.

The Minister then goes on to attempt to chastise the former government, while she seems to have no clue of the way forward.

“Coleby-Davis: Opposition has no legitimacy to complain about BPL” The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Minister of Energy and Transport JoBeth Coleby-Davis said yesterday the Official Opposition does not have any legitimacy to complain about the handling of Bahamas Power and Light (BPL).

Coleby-Davis was responding specifically to concerns raised by the opposition in the House of Assembly during debate on the Electricity Bill, 2024, and the Natural Gas Bill, 2024, that the bills were too lengthy and complex to debate together and in only one sitting.

“As much as I can be able to converse and communicate with you, the media, and with the public to give them the assurances, to make sure that I put in a better terminology that they can understand, I will do that,” she said.

“But I do not think the opposition is in any position to criticize the government, because the opposition had four and a half years. We are amending a 2015 bill, which means they did nothing to the legislation when they sat as the government.”

The first thing that the “good” Minister should educate herself on is the difference between a complaint and helpful criticism, the very same criticism that had her make the amendment that had her and the New Day government attempting to run “buck wild” with BPL – AGAIN.

If she remembers, it was her government that brought about the high electricity bills being experienced by consumers right now, but I digress.

What she really needs to knowledge is the fact that if the former administration had not done the groundwork to bring in the present turbines/engines at BPL, her government could not and would not be talking about the possibility of lower electricity bills using LNG.

So, her statement that the “Opposition has no legitimacy to complain about BPL” is complete and utter nonsense by a person deeply steeped in arrogant Ignorance. 

As I have said before there are no complaints but rather nothing more than constructive criticism but her arrogant Ignorance would not allow her to see that this way, so here we are with a ‘good” Minister the constantly trips over her own tongue and like Greek philosopher Zeno once said, “Its better to trip with the feet than with the tongue”

The Progressive Liberal Party fails for one reason; it is their nature.

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